Three dead in ambush on Shi'ite mourners south of Beirut -Hezbollah source


  • World
  • Sunday, 01 Aug 2021

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Three people were killed on Sunday in an ambush on Shi'ite mourners in a town south of Beirut, a day after a revenge killing of a member of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, a senior source in the group said.

The three were shot in the town of Khaldeh, where sectarian tensions have long flared between the town's mixed Shi'ite and Sunni residents.

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